Author: Robert G. Spinney
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Keywords: chicago, history, shoulders, city
Number of Pages: 300
Published: 2000-06
List price: $18.50
ISBN-10: 0875805833
ISBN-13: 9780875805832

CITY OF BIG SHOULDERS distills all the grit and glory of Chicago’s past into one compact volume. This brisk account illuminates key events and people in the city’s evolution from a marshland to today’s robust metropolis. Synthesizing a vast body of literature, Spinney traces formative events in the city’s history, illuminating people, events, and institutions that are most important for understanding Chicago’s story. From Fort Dearborn to Cabrini-Green, Marquette to Mayor Daley, CITY OF BIG SHOULDERS draws together diverse threads of the city’s development,

Author: Rudolph Binion
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Keywords: germans, among, hitler
Number of Pages: 207
Published: 1984-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0875805310
ISBN-13: 9780875805313

Author: Richard Saunders Jr.
Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
Keywords: railroads, american, lines, merging
Number of Pages: 486
Published: 2001-12
List price: $49.95
ISBN-10: 0875802656
ISBN-13: 9780875802657

Why did American railroads decline at the turn of the 20th century into the near-death experience of the 1970s? And why did many railroad mergers in the 50s and 60s make things worse? This book addresses these questions, analysing the role of the railroads in the social/economic fabric of US life.

Author: Kevin P. Spicer
Publisher: Northern Illinois Univ Pr
Keywords: national, socialism, clergy, catholic, priests, hitler
Number of Pages: 385
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0875803849
ISBN-13: 9780875803845

Shaken by military defeat and economic depression after War World I, Germans sought to restore their nation s dignity and power. In this context the National Socialist Party, with its promise of a revivified Germany, drew supporters. Among the most zealous were a number of Catholic clergymen known as brown priests who volunteered as Nazi propagandists. In Hitler s Priests, Kevin P. Spicer introduces the principal clergymen who participated in the Nazi movement, examines their motives, details their advocacy of National Socialism, and explores the consequences of their political activism.Some b

Author: Robert L LaPointe
Publisher: Northern PJ Press
Keywords: vietnam, pararescuemen, eyes, story, pjs, airrescue
Number of Pages: 469
Published: 2001
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0970867107
ISBN-13: 9780970867100

Author: Edgar Masters
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: books, state, prairie, sangamon
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 1988-10-01
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0252060385
ISBN-13: 9780252060380

Author: Sharon Strom
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: women, american, history, moder, origins, gender, class, typewriter
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1994-11-01
List price: $22.00
ISBN-10: 0252064259
ISBN-13: 9780252064258